curricle
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of curricle
1675–85; < Latin curriculum; see curriculum
Example Sentences
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He spares himself no indulgence, hires his hunter and follows the hounds, or drives about the country in a curricle and pair, and seems to be rolling in wealth.
From The Haunted Room A Tale by A. L. O. E.
At last, a curricle, glittering with silver, rattled round the corner and stopped opposite him.
From The Speaker, No. 5: Volume II, Issue 1 December, 1906. by Pearson, Paul M. (Paul Martin)
At an early hour the curricle was at the door, and Sir Patrick, having handed his lady in, took leave of Adeline.
From Adeline Mowbray or, The Mother and Daughter by Opie, Amelia Alderson
Again, Tom Musgrave plagues Emma just as Thorpe persecuted Catherine by an ill-timed invitation to a tête-a-tête curricle drive.
From Rustic Sounds and Other Studies in Literature and Natural History by Darwin, Francis, Sir
Mr. Knightly rides from Brunswick Square to Hartfield, by a road that Miss Austen herself must have travelled in the curricle with her brother, driving to London on a summer's day.
From A Book of Sibyls Miss Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs Opie, Miss Austen by Ritchie, Anne Thackeray
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